If you actively dislike Creedence Clearwater Revival, then I can never respect anything you have to say about anything.

Writer and publisher shares are usually 50/50 each; writer royalties legally can't be below 50%.

^^^ so he probably did OK, but had to watch a lot of $ go to his hated nemesis

Yeah, they were sufficiently high that he didn't have to release records or tour for 10 years!

Thanks!

We should have a poll of biggest record executive assholes: Zaentz, Allen Klein, the Bert Berns, who else?

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Plenty of small label owners to add to such a list! Most of them in fact.

Greg Ginn belongs on that list for sure, and Tony whatsisname from Victory Records.

Armen Boladian for sure

Matthew Katz should count

Ginn is really bad

The Homestead guys

Don Robey
Morris Levy

“John’s songs are some of the chooglinest compositions of the 20th century,” Valentine said.

Robey, definitely. A complete sack of shit, and until recently, I didn't realize that some believe he coerced Big Mama Thornton into loading the bullet that killed Johnny Ace into his gun.

(I doubt the theory myself, but that's only a small part of an article detailing how terrible Robey was.)

Was driving around this morning and "Commotion" came on, so you know what I did?

I turned that shit *up*.

I think someone was intentionally making a statement, playing that song on the sound-system one day in Walmart just before Christmas.

We should have a poll of biggest record executive assholes: Zaentz, Allen Klein, the Bert Berns, who else?

A manager rather than a record company guy but hard to beat this guy:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Polley

If you include managers, Peter Grant has to be near the top of the list.

Grant didn’t steal from, or otherwise rip off, his bands. But he got in way over his head thinking that surrounding Zeppelin with his gangster buddies, and using brute force bullying tactics, was a good idea. Zep got their money, and control over their work, but Grant did tremendous damage (physical and emotional) along the way. Not for nothing did Plant and Page take on Who/Judas Priest manager Bill Curbishley for the UnLeded records/tours.

Sweet hitchakikah

The red 15 means "not allowed." I tried.

https://phildellio.tripod.com/choogled.jpg

"Have You Ever Seen The Rain?" has recently crossed the Billion spins threshold on Spotify, with "Fortunate Son" coming up next with almost 924 Million plays.

How much $ does that translate to

around 3 million dollars?